FocusMon vs Levely
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocusMon
This app gamifies phone-free time by opening a rift where monsters appear as long as you stay focused. Collect, evolve, and battle monsters using shards earned from focused sessions. Engage in turn-based battles with friends and players worldwide, and grow stronger together with your monster companions.
- Gamified focus sessions
- Monster collection and evolution
- Turn-based monster battles
- Live Activity timer
- Friend trading and pacts
- Daily and weekly goals
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Put your phone down – and catch monsters for it. FocusMon is a Pomodoro and focus timer that turns your study time into a monster-collecting game. Start a focus session, a rift opens, and as long as you stay focused, monsters step through for you to catch. Leave the app to use your phone and the session breaks – the rift closes empty. Every minute away from your phone becomes progress: studying, homework, exam prep or deep work. STAY FOCUSED • A focus timer for studying, school, college and deep work – set your own session length. • Your session only runs while you stay in the app. Leave early and you walk away with nothing. • Live Activity keeps the timer on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Turn screen time into a growing collection. COLLECT, EVOLVE, TRADE • Over 100 unique monsters, each with three evolution stages, plus rare Mythic monsters. • Shards earned from your focus time level up and evolve your monsters. • Trade monsters with friends and complete your Archive. BATTLE FRIENDS AND PLAYERS WORLDWIDE • Turn-based battles with monsters trained by your focus time. • Play casually against friends or climb the ranked ladder from Bronze to Champion. FOCUS TOGETHER • Make a focus pact with a friend: one shared goal, and rewards for both of you when you finish. • See which of your friends are focusing right now. A REASON TO COME BACK EVERY DAY • Buddy monsters level up with every session and unlock exclusive looks and items. • Daily goals, a weekly board and the Rift Pass reward consistent focus. • Season 2: Frost Season with the mythic Kryothys – free for everyone. Made for anyone who wants less phone time: students, people with ADHD, and everyone who finds it easier to focus when it feels like a game. It's never too late to spend less time on your phone.
Levely
This app gamifies skill development by using a focus timer that awards experience points for dedicated practice sessions. Track your progress with detailed stats and watch your skills level up over time, mirroring RPG progression.
- RPG-style skill progression
- Focus timer with XP rewards
- Detailed skill level tracking
- No streaks or guilt mechanics
- Weekly, monthly, yearly time views
- Home screen widget
- Private iCloud sync
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You know the feeling of starting a new character in your favorite RPG. You're weak. You have no idea what you're doing. Every skill is at level 1. Then you start playing. Levely brings that feeling to real life. It's a focus timer that turns the time you spend practicing real skills into RPG-style progression. Pick a skill, set a timer, and focus. When the session ends, you earn XP and your skill gets closer to the next level. Levely can't tell whether you practiced well, or hard, or at the right difficulty. No app can, not without watching you far more closely than you'd like. So XP doesn't measure how good you are. It measures that you sat down and gave something your full attention, and for how long. A CHARACTER SHEET FOR REAL SKILLS Every skill has a level, an XP bar and a history. Watch them climb slowly, unevenly, the way real progress actually goes. EARN YOUR TITLE Earned through hours of focus. Nothing is handed out. NO STREAKS No chains to break, no guilt, nothing to protect. Miss a week and your levels are exactly where you left them. Progress isn't linear, and an app that punishes you for that is measuring the wrong thing. SEE WHERE THE TIME WENT Week, month and year views show where your time actually went and which skills got it. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Your most recent skills, their levels and the week's practice — in three sizes. SYNCS PRIVATELY Your practice syncs across your devices through your own iCloud. No account, no sign-up, no server. I can't see any of it, and I don't want to. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Levely is free with up to three skills. One purchase unlocks unlimited skills, the Home Screen widget and extra themes. No subscription. No recurring charge. Pay once and it's yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Levely at 5.0 against FocusMon's 3.0. Levely also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). FocusMon's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FocusMon sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Levely sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Levely holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FocusMon ships an update every 6 days, Levely every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocusMon | Levely |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 681 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fynn Loosen | Radu-Adrian Constantin |
Customer experience
FocusMon
Levely
In-app purchases
FocusMon
- FocusMon+7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- FocusMon+ (Yearly)$22.991 Year
- Raid Key$0.99
- Emote Pack — Savage$0.99
- Emote Pack — Party$0.99
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- Emote Pack — Meme$0.99
- 250 Sprite Shards$0.99
- Key Bundle$1.99
- Rift Pass – Frost Season$2.99
- Rift Pass – Ember Season$2.99
- Rift Pass — Season 0$2.99
- 1,250 Sprite Shards$3.99
- 2,500 Sprite Shards$8.99
Levely
- Amethyst Theme$2.99
- Full Access$9.99









